April 19 (UPI) -- More than 10,000 people have been killed in fighting in Yemen over the past five months -- raising the death toll 70,000, a new analysis says.
The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project said in its report Thursday fighting between Iranian-supported Houthi rebels and the Saudi Arabia-backed Yemeni government has led to a humanitarian crisis and 14 million people on the edge of starvation. The price of food in Yemen since 2015 has increased 68 percent, and the costs of gasoline and cooking gas is up 25 percent.